Density functional complete study of hydrogen bonding between the water molecule and the hydroxyl radical (H2O · HO)

2002 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
pp. 550-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhengyu Zhou ◽  
Yuhui Qu ◽  
Aiping Fu ◽  
Benni Du ◽  
Faxin He ◽  
...  
2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 202-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-Feng Liu

In the present work, explicit water molecule and solvent-field effects on the absorption spectrum of chlorophyll a have been studied using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) method. Calculated results show that the one complex and two water coordinated complexes formed by concerted coordination and hydrogen-bonding interactions would be the most preferable conformations of chlorophyll a in aqueous surroundings. Moreover, four obvious absorption bands are assigned by comparing the theoretically simulated absorption spectra with the experimental ones. The theoretical study shows that the explicit water molecule interactions slightly influence the first absorption band. However, the water coordination and hydrogen-bonding interactions can significantly affect the second absorption band which has a strong red-shift. The solvent-field effect due to the polarity of water on absorptions in Q-bands is relatively smaller than that on absorptions in B-bands. As a consequence, our theoretical study on the absorption spectra in the 350–400 nm region presents that the absorption strength in this region was influenced by the explicit coordination and hydrogen bonding interactions from water molecules, significantly.


1991 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 2057-2062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwang S. Kim ◽  
Hyun Sik Kim ◽  
Jee Hwan Jang ◽  
Ho Soon Kim ◽  
Byung‐Jin Mhin ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (08) ◽  
pp. 1850050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiuhan Luo ◽  
Gang Li ◽  
Junping Xiao ◽  
Chunhui Yin ◽  
Yahui He ◽  
...  

Sulfonylureas are an important group of herbicides widely used for a range of weeds and grasses control particularly in cereals. However, some of them tend to persist for years in environments. Hydrolysis is the primary pathway for their degradation. To understand the hydrolysis behavior of sulfonylurea herbicides, the hydrolysis mechanism of metsulfuron-methyl, a typical sulfonylurea, was investigated using density functional theory (DFT) at the B3LYP/6-31[Formula: see text]G(d,p) level. The hydrolysis of metsulfuron-methyl resembles nucleophilic substitution by a water molecule attacking the carbonyl group from aryl side (pathway a) or from heterocycle side (pathway b). In the direct hydrolysis, the carbonyl group is directly attacked by one water molecule to form benzene sulfonamide or heterocyclic amine; the free energy barrier is about 52–58[Formula: see text]kcal[Formula: see text]mol[Formula: see text]. In the autocatalytic hydrolysis, with the second water molecule acting as a catalyst, the free energy barrier, which is about 43–45[Formula: see text]kcal[Formula: see text]mol[Formula: see text], is remarkably reduced by about 11[Formula: see text]kcal[Formula: see text]mol[Formula: see text]. It is obvious that water molecules play a significant catalytic role during the hydrolysis of sulfonylureas.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 3763
Author(s):  
Poul Erik Hansen

This review outlines methods to investigate the structure of natural products with emphasis on intramolecular hydrogen bonding, tautomerism and ionic structures using NMR techniques. The focus is on 1H chemical shifts, isotope effects on chemical shifts and diffusion ordered spectroscopy. In addition, density functional theory calculations are performed to support NMR results. The review demonstrates how hydrogen bonding may lead to specific structures and how chemical equilibria, as well as tautomeric equilibria and ionic structures, can be detected. All these features are important for biological activity and a prerequisite for correct docking experiments and future use as drugs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 2030
Author(s):  
Hela Ferjani ◽  
Hammouda Chebbi ◽  
Mohammed Fettouhi

The new organic–inorganic compound (C6H9N2)2BiCl5 (I) has been grown by the solvent evaporation method. The one-dimensional (1D) structure of the allylimidazolium chlorobismuthate (I) has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. It crystallizes in the centrosymmetric space group C2/c and consists of 1-allylimidazolium cations and (1D) chains of the anion BiCl52−, built up of corner-sharing [BiCl63−] octahedra which are interconnected by means of hydrogen bonding contacts N/C–H⋯Cl. The intermolecular interactions were quantified using Hirshfeld surface analysis and the enrichment ratio established that the most important role in the stability of the crystal structure was provided by hydrogen bonding and H···H interactions. The highest value of E was calculated for the contact N⋯C (6.87) followed by C⋯C (2.85) and Bi⋯Cl (2.43). These contacts were favored and made the main contribution to the crystal packing. The vibrational modes were identified and assigned by infrared and Raman spectroscopy. The optical band gap (Eg = 3.26 eV) was calculated from the diffuse reflectance spectrum and showed that we can consider the material as a semiconductor. The density functional theory (DFT) has been used to determine the calculated gap, which was about 3.73 eV, and to explain the electronic structure of the title compound, its optical properties, and the stability of the organic part by the calculation of HOMO and LUMO energy and the Fukui indices.


Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 2778
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Lane ◽  
Graham C. Saunders

The crystal structure of 4-(2,3,5,6-tetrafluoropyridyl)diphenylphosphine oxide (1) contains two independent molecules in the asymmetric unit. Although the molecules are virtually identical in all other aspects, the P=O bond distances differ by ca. 0.02 Å. In contrast, although tris(pentafluorophenyl)phosphine oxide (2) has a similar crystal structure, the P=O bond distances of the two independent molecules are identical. To investigate the reason for the difference, a density functional theory study was undertaken. Both structures comprise chains of molecules. The attraction between molecules of 1, which comprises lone pair–π, weak hydrogen bonding and C–H∙∙∙arene interactions, has energies of 70 and 71 kJ mol−1. The attraction between molecules of 2 comprises two lone pair–π interactions, and has energies of 99 and 100 kJ mol−1. There is weak hydrogen bonding between molecules of adjacent chains involving the oxygen atom of 1. For one molecule, this interaction is with a symmetry independent molecule, whereas for the other, it also occurs with a symmetry related molecule. This provides a reason for the difference in P=O distance. This interaction is not possible for 2, and so there is no difference between the P=O distances of 2.


2009 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 691-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
FENG FENG ◽  
HUAN WANG ◽  
WEI-HAI FANG ◽  
JIAN-GUO YU

A modified semiempirical model named RM1BH, which is based on RM1 parameterizations, is proposed to simulate varied biological hydrogen-bonded systems. The RM1BH is formulated by adding Gaussian functions to the core–core repulsion items in original RM1 formula to reproduce the binding energies of hydrogen bonding of experimental and high-level computational results. In the parameterizations of our new model, 35 base-pair dimers, 18 amino acid residue dimers, 14 dimers between a base and an amino acid residue, and 20 other multimers were included. The results performed with RM1BH were compared with experimental values and the benchmark density-functional (B3LYP/6-31G**/BSSE) and Möller–Plesset perturbation (MP2/6-31G**/BSSE) calculations on various biological hydrogen-bonded systems. It was demonstrated that RM1BH model outperforms the PM3 and RM1 models in the calculations of the binding energies of biological hydrogen-bonded systems by very close agreement with the values of both high-level calculations and experiments. These results provide insight into the ideas, methods, and views of semiempirical modifications to investigate the weak interactions of biological systems.


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